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Kicking off Stevie Wonder Month!
From: KMUW
Series: Soulsations
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It’s Stevie Wonder Month on Soulsations! We celebrate the legendary musician who turns 74 on May 13th. We’ll enjoy his music and stories about him ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WGZS, RadioFreePalmer, KHNS, KSLU and more


  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
Ohio Players' James 'Diamond' Williams reveals the inspiration behind "OHIO"
From: KMUW
Series: Soulsations
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The Ohio Players’ James “Diamond” Williams talks about the intention for their 1977 funky tune, "O-H-I-O." Hear new music from the legendary Char...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WGZS, RadioFreePalmer, KHNS, KSLU and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:28
  • Purchases: 6
Salt Lick Sessions: Dre Scot
From: Salt Lick Incubator
Series: Salt Lick Sessions
Caption: Salt Lick Sessions: Dre Scot Episode, Credit: @iamdrescot
This episode, host Beane is hanging out with the R&B singer Ciara calls "a once-in-a-lifetime vocal talent”: Dre Scot. Known to many as two-time ...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
THE EMERGENCE OF MARVIN GAYE - E 2 of 2 - [1972 - 1984]
From: Paul Ingles
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Music specials host Paul Ingles and a panel of music scholars recall and celebrate the career of Motown music legend Marvin Gaye. This second of 2 ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KAZU Seaside, Calif., WXXI Rochester, North State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
THE EMERGENCE OF STEVIE WONDER (SINGLE HOUR VERSION)
From: Paul Ingles
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The early emergence and on-going stellar career of musician STEVIE WONDER is explored and discussed in this special (offered this month of June - A...

Bought by WJCT, KUNM, KGOU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
THE EMERGENCE OF STEVIE WONDER (2 HOUR VERSION)
From: Paul Ingles
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The early emergence and on-going stellar career of musician STEVIE WONDER is explored and discussed in this three hour special (offered this month ...

Bought by KMUW, KUNM, KGOU, WGBH Radio Boston, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
NL 22-07: Diggin' Diz: A Portrait Of Dizzy Gillespie, 2/7/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Diggin' Diz: A Portrait Of Dizzy Gillespie

  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #144 - Mavis Staples' Soul: A Celebration (Hour 1 of 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Mavis Staples
A music and talk celebration of the indomitable spirit and talent that Mavis Staples has shown over a career that tacks from the late 1940’s, into ...

Bought by KFSK, KUHF, WRVO Public Media, and KSJE


  • Added: Jan 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
NL 21-18: Ellington Ending: Duke Ellington 1967-73, 4/26/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the last years of his life, and no longer with the services of longtime writing partner Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington continued to compose mem...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
NL 20-15: Maiden Voyage: Herbie Hancock In The 1960s, 4/6/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1960s Herbie Hancock seemed to be everywhere on the jazz scene, recording both as a leader for Blue Note and as a sideman with Miles Davis a...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
NL 19-40: Our Delight: The Music Of Tadd Dameron, 9/30/2019
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Music of the pianist and composer-arranger who left his stamp on the bebop and hardbop era, as well as an interview with Dameron biographer Paul Co...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
NL 18-11: Quincy Jones: The Jazz Years, 3/12/2018
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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One of the world's most successful music producers got his start as a jazz trumpeter, arranger, and bandleader. We'll hear recordings he made in th...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
NL 17-27: Shorter Lee: Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter, 6/26/2017
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A look at one of hardbop's greatest front lines: Trumpeter Lee Morgan and saxophonist Wayne Shorter were two of the leading lights of the 1960s har...

  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
NL 17-23: Ready For Freddie Redd, 5/29/2017
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A salute to hardbop pianist Freddie Redd, featuring recordings he made with artists such as Jackie McLean and Tina Brooks.

  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 59:05
WoodSongs 880: Ruthie Foster and Sally & George
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: The phenomenal Ruthie Foster.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcome vocal powerhouse from Austin, Texas Ruthie Foster plus East Nashville base...

Bought by KDLG, KJJF, WETS, WOUB, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 10
NL 17-19: Postwar Prez: Lester Young 1945-1950, 5/1/2017
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Jazz scholar and Lester Young box-set annotator Loren Schoenberg joins us as we look at the music the saxophonist made in the years following a dif...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 1626
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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A blowout farewell edition of our weekly program after eight plus years of broadcasting!

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lionel Loueke brings Afrobeat to jazz
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
Caption: Lionel Loueke performs at Montreal Jazz Festival, Credit: (c) 2016 Reese Erlich
Guitarist Lionel Loueke brings the sounds and rhythms of Benin to the world of jazz.

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1625
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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A variety of styles from within the Blues spectrum, all off new and recent album releases.

Bought by KSRQ and WJSU


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 1624
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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Big name new releases and truly independent Blues

Bought by WJSU


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1623
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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Great new release Blues albums covering a wide variety of the genre's different styles.

Bought by WJSU


  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1622
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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Back from vacation, Johnny Full-Time has a huge stack of new CDs that recently arrived.

Bought by KSRQ and WJSU


  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 1621
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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New release Blues music from a mixture of established names and young superstars on the rise.

Bought by KSRQ and WJSU


  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 1620
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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New release Blues albums have their songs filling this week's playlist, representing a broad variety of Blues styles.

Bought by WSGE


  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 1619
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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Big time new release Blues music, and a couple crossovers by Country artists, populate this week's playlist.

Bought by WJSU and WSGE


  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2